In Portland, two wealthy people are battling over something exceedingly strange—the right of a mother to be listed as a genetic parent to an infant son they created through IVF and welcomed through a surrogate.

Sherri Shepherd’s baby saga continues. The actress, who’s been trying to get out of paying child support for a baby she had by surrogate, has been ordered to keep making payments—despite her continued claim that the baby was a way for her ex to commit fraud against her.

The Sherri Shepherd surrogacy saga has come to an end for now. A judge ruled that the actress and former The View co-host must pay child support to her ex, Lamar Sally, who is raising the baby he and Shepherd conceived via surrogate. While Shepherd must pay Sally approximately $4,000 a month in support, she can still…

Sherri Shepherd has been ordered to take responsibility for a child she and her (soon-to-be) ex-husband had via surrogate. While Shepherd claims that she was “tricked” into having the child by her ex, a judge has ruled that her name must replace the surrogate’s on the birth certificate.

Foreigners seeking a discount option for surrogacy will no longer be able to go to Thailand to find an open, cheap womb: Thailand has now banned foreigners from paying Thai women to carry their children.

Sherri Shepherd’s child by a surrogate mother has a name, Lamar Sally, Jr. Her ex-husband named the child after himself and says Sherri was prepared to “love” the newborn. As for Shepherd – who appeared on The Wendy Williams Show Wednesday morning – she gave no comment on either Lamar.

Interpol is currently investigating a baffling case of a 24-year-old businessman who has fathered 16 children with various surrogates from Thailand with plans to have plenty more. As in 10-15 per year for as long as he lives. Somewhere, an executive at TLC has surgically replaced his or her eyeballs with cartoon…

The surrogacy business is booming but it’s anything but a well-oiled machine. On Tuesday, Sherri Shepherd and soon-to-be ex-husband Lamar “Sal” Sally sort of welcomed a baby boy via a surrogate in Pennsylvania. Sal was present but Sherri was not, nor has she mentioned the infant on The View because she reportedly…

An anonymous Australian couple has ignited a huge controversy after abandoning a baby they had using a surrogate because he had Down syndrome and taking his healthy twin sister back to Australia with them. Because humanity just wasn't insufferable enough.

Sherri Shepherd is leaving The View and enduring an extremely rough divorce. Now it appears she also wants to give up custody of her unborn surrogate child. Rumor has it she's worried her ex husband is planning on using the child as a bargaining chip to pump Shepherd for child support.

This May, Mitt Romney's son Tagg and his wife Jennifer became the proud parents of two beautiful twin boys with the help of a surrogate. And today, TMZ revealed that — gasp — the agreement they made with the surrogate gave the woman carrying their children the option to terminate the pregnancy for pretty much any…

A contender for most spiteful father of 2012 has emerged and his name, according to the New York Post, is the late Frank Mandelbaum, whose death in 2007 has not prevented him from trying to shame his gay son from beyond the grave. Mandelbaum's will stipulated that his son Robert's future progeny would not receive any…

On a day when cultural conventions have forced us to laud fatherhood by purchasing something at Lowe's, it might be worth noting that more lucky kids than ever will only have to remember one of the parental holidays the evil greeting card conglomerates have foisted onto our Gregorian calendar. The Census Bureau…

Tagg Romney, the eldest of remarkably well-preserved GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney, announced to the world the birth of adorable twin sons today. Mitt Romney's grandchild count is up to 18. In 50 years, America is projected to be 30% Romney.

Saturday Night Live newcomer Vanessa Bayer stars in the latest episode of I Wanna Have Your Baby, a web series about a woman who is very enthusiastic about being a surrogate mother. The weight gain? She likes "getting fat." Morning sickness? She'd be throwing up anyway. The only issue left for this union is the…